This paper proposes the Transactional Model of Business Process (TMBP), an extension of the Transactional Model of Workflow Processes (TMWP) proposed in the context of the Workflow on Intelligent Distributed database Environment (WIDE). The TMBP mainly includes elements, such as, a Pattern Catalogue that make possible to create business sub-processes (BSP) from the reuse of BSP patterns based o...

This paper evaluates the suitability of the workflow modeling tools through process-based material workflow perspective. A case example in inbound logistics system of “Resource Reception” workflow at the highest domain abstract level is examined with four nominated workflow modeling standards of Data Flow Diagram (DFD), Event-based Process Control (EPC), Business Process Model and Notation (BPM...

OBJECTIVES Languages used to specify computer-interpretable guidelines (CIGs) differ in their approaches to addressing particular modeling challenges. The main goals of this article are: (1) to examine the expressive power of CIG modeling languages, and (2) to define the differences, from the control-flow perspective, between process languages in workflow management systems and modeling languag...

Workflow management is an important part of scientific experiments. A common pattern that scientists are using is based on repetitive job execution on a variety of different systems, and managing such job execution is necessary for large-scale scientific workflows. The workflow system should also be client-based and able to handle multiple security contexts to allow researchers to take advantag...

Numerous type of information systems record event data about executed tasks. Workflow mining is concerned with the origin of a graphical workflow model out of this data. Workflow mining is a highly interactive process. The mining expert repeatedly approaches the result by changing the parameter of the mining tool and verifying the mined models. The modeling of business process in a computerized...

Most of today’s business applications have to deal with automated workflows. In this paper, we argue that the blackboard pattern can be used to create an architecture for the development of such workflows. We illustrate how the fundamental building parts of a workflow are addressed in such an architecture. The development of a prototypical group calendaring application verified the proposed arc...

There is a major gap between the time consuming and obtrusive task of requirement elicitation, for example, in building or refining workflow management systems, and the actual patterns of content use and task execution in the workplace. As groups form and re-form in the enterprise and the tasks undertaken grow, so do the patterns of content and process encountered during everyday knowledge work...

In BIS-Grid, a BMBF-funded project in the context of the German D-Grid initiative (http://www.d-grid.de), we focus on employing Grid technologies for information systems integration. The goal is to enable small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to integrate heterogeneous business information systems and to use external Grid resources and services with reasonable effort. To achieve this goal, we dev...

The Workflow Patterns Initiative was established with the aim of delineating the fundamental requirements that arise during business process modelling on a recurring basis and describe them in an imperative way. The first deliverable of this research project was a set of twenty patterns describing the control-flow perspective of workflow systems. Since their release, these patterns have been wi...